Total No of Rhinos slaughtered in South Africa to Dec 31st 2017 = 1028. Official figures. Read my blog below for Headlines from around the World concerning the Global Catastrophe that is causing the biggest mass extinction since the Permian Period, and News of the fight to stop the slaughter of the Planet's Wildlife before it is too late.

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Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Twenty-one rhino horns worth an estimated $5m have been seized in
Thailand after being found in luggage sent from Ethiopia in the biggest
such haul in years.
The seizure comes days after 300kg of elephant ivory was also impounded in the country.
Thailand is seen as a transit point for the illegal trafficking of wildlife.

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

The amount of smuggled ivory tracked down in
China fell 80 percent in 2016 from previous peak years, the State
Forestry Administration (SFA) said Sunday.

Liu Dongsheng, deputy
head of the SFA, made the remarks at the opening ceremony of a wildlife
protection campaign, without specifying detailed numbers.

China
will stop commercial processing and sales of ivory by the end of this
year. Last year, it imposed a three-year ban on ivory imports in an
escalated fight against illegal trading of wild animals and plants.

The number of illegal wildlife trade cases has been on the decline since last year, said Liu.

Meanwhile,
the numbers of critically endangered species in China, including giant
pandas, crested ibis, Yangtze alligators and Tibetan antelopes, have
been increasing steadily, he said.

China's newly-revised law on
wild animal protection took effect at the start of this year, imposing
harsher punishment on overkilling and illegal utilization of wild
animals.